The transplanted Mexican Pony Tails Feather grass, Dogwood Cherokee Princess, Gladioli, and Husker Red Beardtongues all got black mulch.

Next up were the Pink Muhly grass plants. Since I now have some space in between each plant, I thought it would be a good idea to put down a layer of landscape fabric to try and control the weeds.

Hopefully, the Pink Muhly grass will do well this year.

And finally, the dogwood tree got some black mulch.

And with that, this year's annual mulch project was finished.

My guess on the amount of mulch was pretty accurate.

The 75 bags of red mulch was just enough, and worked out well.

I actually had a few bags of black mulch left over, which will be fine.

The extra black mulch will be put to good use when I add any new residents this summer.

But for now, the mulch project is finished, and all is well.

I better take a lot of pictures now while everything looks "manicured." I can guarantee that as soon as I go inside for the evening, the squirrels will immediately start digging holes in everything.

I think I may have to move the Gladioli away from the dogwood tree. Everything looks fine now. But the tall Gladioli start to lean, which seems to indicate I have them planted too much in the shade of the dogwood tree. We'll see how that works out later this summer.

And I see that I've still got a few straggler irises that need to be moved. I thinned and moved a lot of irises in 2019, and still find stragglers here and there three years later. No wonder Yellow Flag Irises are considered invasive in some places.

Invasive or not, they look nice when they bloom and are welcome in my yard.

With everything in place, the only thing to do is admire the blooms when they arrive.

I should be seeing iris blooms appear very soon.

I don't have any major projects planned for this year. But that may change depending on whether or not the creative side of my mind wakes up.

Actually, what will probably happen is that I'll find something I need to fix, and figure out how to do that, which then becomes a "project."

This will result in me digging up and transplanting stuff.

The exact nature of this remains to be seen.

Two-picture front yard panorama.